La.Tech nursing students apply skills in domestic violence simulation

10:29 AM,
May 1, 2013

Nursing students at Louisiana Tech care for a domestic violence 'victim' during a simulation exercise.

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RUSTON - Louisiana Tech University Nursing 210 students opened the door to "GTM Memorial Hospital" and found a "victim" of domestic violence weeping in a wheelchair.

The 17 students enrolled in Nursing 210 were part of a pilot simulation, "Application of Forensic Nursing to High Risk Pregnancy," developed by Tanya Sims, associate professor of nursing, and Patti McFadden, an assistant professor of nursing.

Students were assigned to groups and were then informed of the mock scenario in which police had brought a battered, pregnant female to the Emergency Department after a 9-1-1 phone ...